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* Wiki/TVTropes. Before the policies on this Wiki changed (specifically, before the implementation of a far stricter RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment, a stricter ban on Administrivia/{{Natter}}, and the YMMV tab) there were lively debates and conversations on some of the entries, although they could easily descend to tiring arguments. Some tropers are still nostalgic for the older version of the website.

* As the Page Quote from ''Series/TopGear'' says a car might be more ''fun'' to drive if it is dynamically ''worse'' since cars with more power than grip will oversteer, ie; the back end will slide around under acceleration, more dangerous on a road but more exciting to mess about with on a track. This can also apply to videogames where the 'less good' cars can be more fun to race than the top level cars. It is for this reason that James Hunt preferred an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A35 Austin A35]] for everyday driving.

* For VHS collectors, it's generally like this. There are practical reasons to collect VHS tapes of course (their cheapness, [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the non-existence of some DVD releases]], or wanting [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion the original unaltered versions of some films]]); but perhaps for reasons of NostalgiaFilter some prefer the retro feel of watching older movies with the soft, grainy picture quality of VHS. Some horror movie buffs maintain that VHS is the ''true way'' to watch just about any horror movie made before 2000.

* Fans of ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' tend to be none too fond of the remastered graphics of the 360 version. They’re perfectly decent in their own right, but the original's more primitive and cartoony graphics made it fit in perfectly visually with other Nintendo 64 collectathons like ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' - [[SubvertedKidsShow which was the entire point.]]

* Many New Yorkers think that Times Square was more fun when it was [[TheBigRottenApple a seedy haven for porno theaters]] before Rudy Giuliani cleaned it and the city as a whole up in TheNineties.

** The BBC's [[NoBudget nonexistent finances]] are clearly on display with the original Cybermen from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]", which barely have any mechanical parts, are clearly just made of surgical tape, paper, and wires, have blank mouths that just kind of...hang open when they're talking, and have fleshy, organic hands because the costume designer ''forgot to bring the gloves they were supposed to wear''. Many fans, notably including Creator/PeterCapaldi, feel that the original design is actually ''scarier'' than the later versions, which were better-made and more mechanical in nature, because their makeshift, obviously cheap, [[PeopleInRubberSuits man-in-a-costume]] look makes it much more clear that they're [[WasOnceAMan converted humans]] and because the bizarre design (with [[TheBlank featureless white faces]] and eerie singsong voices) is much more [[UncannyValley disturbing]] [[SurrealHorror in a nightmarish way]] than a more traditional robot design.

* Plenty of fans felt that the 2011 Broadway revival of ''Theater/{{Godspell}}'' missed the point of the show— originally performed off-Broadway by newcomers and still favored by community theater groups for its simplicity—with its polished orchestrations and professional cast.

* Plenty of fans felt that the 2011 Broadway revival of ''Theater/Godspell'' missed the point of the show— originally performed off-Broadway by newcomers and still favored by community theater groups for its simplicity—with its polished orchestrations and professional cast.

* Likewise, if you can find it, the Creator/RogerCorman ''Film/TheFantasticFour'' film from the early 1990s is SoBadItsGood, compared to the two SoOkayItsAverage 2000s [[Film/FantasticFour films]].

* Music/TheShaggs were awful musicians when ''Philosophy of The World'', their most famous album, came out. Later recordings show them to be much more experienced with their instruments, and actually listenable, if not quite good, though they never quite got their audience back, and as a result faded into obscurity, at least until recently. Dot Wiggin is a ''much'' better musician than when she was a teenager, and a few of her songs are actually quite good, though it's unlikely she'll ever make it out of obscurity.

* While in real life the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' film was a hit among Trekkies and layfolk, the new movie's slick production values combined with this to make a [[http://www.theonion.com/video/trekkies-bash-new-star-trek-film-as-fun-watchable,14333/ great Onion News Network piece]].

* The Creator/VizMedia dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is victim to this from people who watched the Creator/DiC dub in their childhoods. If you watch some of the sample clips on [=YouTube=], you'll see complaints such as Mamoru calling Usagi "bunhead" instead of "meatball head," or Luna not having a British accent. While several appreciated the re-dub with a pretty faithful translation, professional voice actors, keeping the original music, and no CutAndPasteTranslation, many of the aforementioned purists decry the Viz Media dub as much less fun to watch. Where's the [[HamAndCheese overly hammy]] voice acting? Where's the ridiculous American slang? The clumsy censorship? The unfitting voices? For some, the awkward localization of the original dub ironically added a whole new level of NarmCharm to a show that was already over-the-top to begin with, and it's just not ''Sailor Moon'' without it. The biggest thing that fans actually miss however is the soundtrack, which even the biggest critics of the [=DiC=] dub admitted was pretty awesome.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Unwanted_Song The Most Unwanted Song]] was created by surveying people on their most-hated musical genres and elements. Wiki/TheOtherWiki describes it as containing "bagpipes, cowboy music, an opera singer rapping, and a children's choir that urged listeners to go shopping at Walmart." Its flip side, the Most Wanted Song, contains "guitar, bass, piano and drums, and lyrics about love." Not only does the former have about seven times as many views on Website/YouTube, but many people have judged it as much better to listen to: the Most Unwanted Song sounds genuinely unique and hilarious, while the Most Wanted Song just sounds like a generic mediocre love song. Which was, indeed, the entire point.

* ''Film/JemAndTheHolograms'' is what happens when you take [[WesternAnimation/{{Jem}} a campy thirty-year-old toy-commercial cartoon]] and try to turn it into a serious band movie. Without the holograms, the Misfits, the action-adventure elements and other campy charms, ''Jem'' came across as a cheap ''Film/HannahMontana'' remake that pissed off its intended fandom so badly that [[BoxOfficeBomb it couldn't make back]] [[NoBudget a $5 million budget]], and was pulled from theaters after ''two weeks''.

* The creators of ''VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege'' have stated this of Tachanka. Widely seen as the worst character by a wide margin, he also happens to be the most popular, and much of this popularity comes from what an absolute joke he is; in a game all about mobility and flanking, his unique trick is to park himself and become a sitting duck. Add in his HuskyRusskie personality and giant machine gun, and you have a recipe for MemeticBadass and MemeticLoser at the same time. They could probably rework him to be more useful or more fitting ''Siege'''s design, but then it wouldn't be LORD TACHANKA anymore.

* ''[[VideoGame/PrincessMaker Princess Maker 2]]'' was translated into English twice, due to the original publisher falling through. The original dialogue was a bit of a mess, but it was cheesy and fun to read. Many players dislike the new translation for fixing such mistakes as [[ItMakesSenseInContext Wendy's fixation on "Magician Girls!"]

* The Creator/VizMedia dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is victim to this from people who watched the Creator/DiC dub in their childhoods. If you watch some of the sample clips on Youtube, you'll see complaints such as Mamoru calling Usagi "bunhead" instead of "meatball head," or Luna not having a British accent. While several appreciated the re-dub with a pretty faithful translation, professional voice actors, keeping the original music, and no CutAndPasteTranslation, many of the aforementioned purists decry the Viz Media dub as much less fun to watch. Where's the [[HamAndCheese overly hammy]] voice acting? Where's the ridiculous American slang? The clumsy censorship? The unfitting voices? For some, the awkward localization of the original dub ironically added a whole new level of NarmCharm to a show that was already over-the-top to begin with, and it's just not ''Sailor Moon'' without it. The biggest thing that fans actually miss however is the soundtrack, which even the biggest critics of the [=DiC=] dub admitted was pretty awesome.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Most_Unwanted_Song The Most Unwanted Song]] was created by surveying people on their most-hated musical genres and elements. Wiki/TheOtherWiki describes it as containing "bagpipes, cowboy music, an opera singer rapping, and a children's choir that urged listeners to go shopping at Walmart." Its flip side, the Most Wanted Song, contains "guitar, bass, piano and drums, and lyrics about love." Not only does the former have about seven times as many views on YouTube, but many people have judged it as much better to listen to: the Most Unwanted Song sounds genuinely unique and hilarious, while the Most Wanted Song just sounds like a generic mediocre love song. Which was, indeed, the entire point.

The same thing happened with the PSP remake of ''Tactics Ogre''. To say that a part of the hardcore fanbase was... ''displeased'' with their arbitrary name changes would be an understatement. In particular, fans weren't amused when [[UnfortunateNames Aloser's]] name was changed to Arycelle - 'Aloser' was a rather obvious example of So Bad It's Good name (plus there's the hilarity in a hard boss being destroyed in one hit by 'A Loser', who happens to be a GameBreaker), while Arycelle was viewed by many as a mere generic fantasy name. It doesn't help that Aloser's name is clearly romanized in the original [[NoExportForYou SNES version's supplemental material]] as [[Literature/ArsGoetia 'Alocer']]... so 'Arycelle' isn't any more correct than 'Aloser'. But given that the SNES version was only fan-translated, and the 1998 translation was not done by Creator/SquareEnix but ''Atlus'' in their infancy, this doesn't come as a surprise.

* Fans of UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks often [[http://mightygodking.com/2012/04/23/empirical-reasons-why-the-silver-age-was-better/ take this view]] towards more modern superhero stories, saying that while Silver Age stories were frequently idiotic, they were at least creative, tonally consistent, and unapologetically aimed at children, while modern superhero stories are slightly less idiotic, but went from appealing to dumb children to appealing to dumb manchildren, and turned into depressing atonal retreads in the process.

* A good chunk of ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' fans take this view towards more modern interpretations. The 80s cartoon was solid cheese and flatly ridiculous, as [[MostTriumphantExample a near-platonic ideal]] of the stupid 80s cartoon, with its [[MerchandiseDriven blatant toy advertisement]], thick HoYay, nonsense plots, and lovably pathetic villains. The reboots, such as the comics or the 2000s series, remove as much of this as possible... and the result is a generic piece of SwordAndSorcery about a very serious generic muscled dude with a sword fighting a very serious generic EvilOverlord, only [[TheArtifact everyone's still got names like]] Stinkor or Fisto.